Attn JMS: More B5 in comics?
in_vale...@hotmail.com
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/news.html
Should we "expect more B5 stories under [your] own imprint from Top Cow
comics?"
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Expect More Rising Stars
abylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski told fans to expect more B5
stories under his own imprint from Top Cow comics. "I'm doing the
Rising Stars books from Top Cow, which are in the top 20 of comics,
which is great ... to the point that TC has offered me my own imprint,"
Straczynski said in a SCIFI.COM chat on June 21. "So starting in
September, the first issue of my imprint will be out. The comic title
is Midnight Nation, and the imprint of the title overall is JOE'S
COMICS."
Straczynski added, "In addition to that, we're in the process of
selling the Rising Stars film rights, and there are some TV/film
related projects that are in the early stages, but not yet nailed down
to a point where I can talk about them. But expect some info in the
next few weeks."
Straczynski also created City of Dreams, an anthology of original audio
dramas for SCIFI.COM's Seeing Ear Theatre, which premieres July 10.
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scott tilson.
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Before you buy.
Jms at B5
>abylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski told fans to expect more B5
>stories under his own imprint from Top Cow comics.
No, I don't know what that refers to or where it comes from...unless they are
assuming that anything I write is a B5 story since I created B5, which doesn't
make any kind of sense....
No, there won't be any B5 comics for one simple reason: DC is owned by Time
Warner, parent company of WB. Their feeling is that, because they own DC,
nobody else should do a B5 comic. But it ain't gonna happen under DC. Even
so, they don't want to turn it loose; better no one should do it.
It's like a monkey with his hand around a nut in a jar...he won't let it go,
but he can't get his hand out of the jar, either....
jms
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Rich Johnston
says...
>No, there won't be any B5 comics for one simple reason: DC is owned by Time
>Warner, parent company of WB. Their feeling is that, because they own DC,
>nobody else should do a B5 comic. But it ain't gonna happen under DC. Even
>so, they don't want to turn it loose; better no one should do it.
JMS, talk to people at Wildstorm. They are also owned by Time Warner and, while
soliciting alongside DC, have some autonomy over projects.
And they'll need something to replace the Star Trek line when that ends. Which
it will.
Rich Johnston twis...@hotmail.com
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in_vale...@hotmail.com
Rich Johnston <twis...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In article <20000707201752...@ng-fg1.aol.com>,
jms...@aol.com
> says...
>
> >No, there won't be any B5 comics for one simple reason: DC is owned
by Time
> >Warner, parent company of WB. Their feeling is that, because they
own DC,
> >nobody else should do a B5 comic. But it ain't gonna happen under
DC. Even
> >so, they don't want to turn it loose; better no one should do it.
>
> JMS, talk to people at Wildstorm. They are also owned by Time Warner
> and, while soliciting alongside DC, have some autonomy over projects.
>
> And they'll need something to replace the Star Trek line when that
> ends. Which it will.
Can't say I've been terribly impressed with the WS ST offerings. But
Paramount has a rep for being very hands-on with the comics, but in an
ignorant way. Ask Peter David about R.J. Blaise and the lethal apple
in the Nasgul/Klingon arc.
But WildStorm Jeff Mariotte has gotten Peter to do a oneshot of his
ST:New Frontier series, with the art team of Mike Colling & David Roach
from the last B5 comics arc, "In Valen's Name" (love that title). :)
If WS can please Alan Moore, maybe there's hope... ?
scott tilson.
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Recommended: PLANETARY by Warren Ellis & John Cassiday.
http://www.warrenellis.com/planetary.htm
http://www.johncassaday.com/gallery_planetary.htm
Simo Aaltonen
interesting, if not all that fantastic in other respects. I remember the
second run of DC's Original Trek comics, which was frequently BORING and
uninteresting. A comic book being uninteresting is really bad, it's
better to be crap, even. For example, DC's very first B5 issue featured
Michael Netzer's artwork. While it was not excellent or exciting, it WAS
interesting. I found many things to like about it. There was a certain
rough beauty to much of his work (as in the panel with Sinclair and his
d*ck -- well, sw*n, actually).
Whereas Gordon Purcell's acclaimed work for DCTOS2 was quite unexciting
and not at all dynamic or imaginative, despite the damn-near perfect
likenesses (they did have the amazing Jerome Moore doing covers for a
good while, though, and the great Jason Palmer later). Howard
Weinstein's storylines were also profoundly unprovocative. (Kevin Ryan
was much more interesting.)
Wildstorm hasn't really produced classics with their Trek comics so far,
but at least there has been variety and some genuinely fine work. STTNG:
"Perchance to Dream" had great covers by Tim Bradstreet, but a dull,
strung-out story with conservative artwork. The TOS yarn "All of Me" was
good fun, despite the comic book baddie Djinn, which did not fit into the
world of TOS at all. Otherwise Isabella & Ingersoll didn't do a bad job
with the writing, and Lopresti and Emberlin at least told the story
decently.
They've done some new things with their Trek comics, and that at least
commends them for possible B5 comics. Should that happen, which I doubt.
Wouldn't it be great to get some REAL pros to do ST and B5 in comics,
though? John Byrne, for example, always seemed like a big TOS fan (based
on the many references to TOS in The Fantastic Four, among others).
-simo aaltonen
Pål Are Nordal
>
> Wildstorm's Star Trek comics have at least had the virtue of being
> interesting, if not all that fantastic in other respects. I remember the
> second run of DC's Original Trek comics, which was frequently BORING and
> uninteresting.
Oh, number 16 wasn't /that/ bad...
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Iain Clark
"Pål Are Nordal" <a_b...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> Simo Aaltonen wrote:
> >
> > Wildstorm's Star Trek comics have at least had the virtue of being
> > interesting, if not all that fantastic in other respects. I remember the
> > second run of DC's Original Trek comics, which was frequently BORING and
> > uninteresting.
> Oh, number 16 wasn't /that/ bad...
Indeed :-)
I own that issue myself. "Worldsinger" - by...J.Michael Straczynski, Gordon
Purcell and Arne Starr.
Iain
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"Signs, portents, dreams...next thing
we'll be reading tea leaves and chicken entrails."
Simo Aaltonen
>Simo Aaltonen wrote:
>> Wildstorm's Star Trek comics have at least had the virtue of being
>> interesting, if not all that fantastic in other respects. I remember the
>> second run of DC's Original Trek comics, which was frequently BORING and
>> uninteresting.
>
>Oh, number 16 wasn't /that/ bad...
There were many good and interesting issues, but generally what was
missing was energy and excitement. The first 12 issues by Peter David
were great, Diane Duane scripted the decent "Epic Proportions" (#52), and
in all fairness most of Howard Weinstein's issues had at least something
to commend them. The main problem, though, about Howard's stories was
that they rarely made me really care about what was going on. They
featured too many disposable alien races that were exactly like humans in
every way apart from appearances, and little new ever really happened.
The dialogue of the characters in Howard's stories seemed like it had
been cut and pasted from the old series and especially the movies.
The main problem, though, was that they failed to make me care. That's
why I liked Kevin Ryan's stories for that comic best of all.
"Gary" (#64) was genuinely moving, not to mention the two-parter in
issues #62 and #63. That was an alternate history story, but Kevin still
wrote James Kirk's death (in this alternate timeline that got fixed by
the end) in a way that was profoundly touching. I had tears in my eyes as
Kirk lay down to die.
And yes, JMS's "Worldsinger" was a good little story, and the characters
were very much in character in that one.
-simo aaltonen